Gurusamy

                                                                                                 Mobile: 425-635-8748

                                                                                                 Email: gurusamyk@gmail.com

·         16+ years of experience on executing the testing projects in data networking technologies

·         Good knowledge and hands-on experience on LTE, Layer 2/3 protocols, Virtualization, Content Networking, and Network Management

·         Knowledge of 3GPP Mobility Specifications applicable to Packet Core Infrastructure Nodes; GGSN, SGSN, SGW, PGW. 

·         Knowledge of Policy and Charging elements within the packet core; PCEF, PCRF,PAS

·         Good understanding of mobility related call flows;

·         Proficient in managing a large team of test & automation engineers and responsible for handling multiple projects

·         Defined and implemented Test Plans, Test Automation Plans, Test Strategies including Resource and Task allocation, Test data identification and creation,  preparation of Test Report, Build Status Report, Defect Report, and Project Progress Report

·         Superior record in automation and optimization of test suites resulting in delivery of quality products ahead of schedule.

·         Developed strong technical competency test & automation teams

·         Excellent people management and leadership skills

·         Proven track record of leadership, rewarded with the Best Team Awards.

 

Company	Designation	Period of No. of Years
Tech Mahindra Americas Ltd, Redmond, WA,USA	Senior Product Architect	March 2012  to till date  - 2+ Years
Tech Mahindra, Chennai, India	Senior Product Architect	July 2006 to March 2012 –  5.9 Years
Centillium India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India	Staff Engineer	January 2004 to July 2006 – 2.6 Years
HCL TECHNOLOGIES – HCL CISCO Offshore Development Center, Chennai, India	Lead Engineer	March 1998 to December 2003 – ~6 Years
Bay Talkitech Ltd, Chennai, India.	Software Engineer	June 1997 to February1998 – 9 months

 

Operating System:              Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Windows 2000 Server/Professional

 

Languages:              TCL, Python, PERL, Vbscript, Shell scripting. C, C++

 

Networking:                                LTE, VoLTE, IMS, PCRF, GTP,xSTP, EFM, CFM, LACP, VPLS,T-MPLS, EPON, EAPOL (802.1x), Flow control, IEEE 802.1p&q,  Provider Bridge, RIP,OSPF,BGP, IGMP, QoS, Content Networking, PIX Firewall, SIP, SNMP and WLAN

 

Tools :               Spirent iTest, ATS, IXIA, Spirent Test Center, Landslide, SmartBits, Agilent , Abacus,QXDM,ADB, Mobile Experience, Ethereal, Tektronix IRIS ,GeoProbe G10, JDSU, Netscout, SVN, Clear case, Bugzilla, DDTS, HP OpenView,  NetView, Mib browser, SAM and SMIT

Name of the Degree                            Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)

Year of Passing                            May 1997

Name of the University              University of Madras, Chennai, India

 

·         Cisco Certified Network Associate

·         Cisco Certified Network Professional

·         Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advanced

·         Attended PMP training

·         Attended Docsis training

 

 

Major Project Handled in Tech Mahindra Americas:

 

Mar 2012 – Till Date              LTE Test Automation

Environment:              Automation using iTest tool, IxLoad, Landslide, Android, iPhone, Mobile Experience, Mobile Anyware, TCL,Python, SVN

Customer                                  AT&T Inc, Redmond, WA, USA

Brief Profile:              Automating AT&T LTE EPC network (Neo and Calico) test functionalities which include various 3G, 4G call scenarios, hand-overs, Enterprise, Consumer and VoLTE test beds configurations and network elements (SPGW, DST, ASR, SDG, PCRF, L2FW and CCS Router) base functionalities. Automating mobility scenario’s with different Control Plane, User Plane, SP Gateway modes and Subscribers profile. Used IxLoad, Landslide, Mobile Experience, Android and iPhones to generate different kinds of LTE traffic.

Size:              48

Roles and Responsibilities:              Lead Technical Consultant

·         Responsible for project delivery

·         Involved in AT&T enterprise, consumer and VoLTE testing and automation

·         Developing test plans

·         Involved in test execution and monitoring

·         Automation strategy planning

·         Automation co-ordination between onsite and offshore team

·         Setting up the Automation Environment.

·         Working with vendors (Spirent, Ixia, Cisco and Juniper) to resolve the issues.

·         Project scheduling, estimation and risk management

·         Preparing / analyzing metrics report for status update, quality improvement etc

·         Developing the automation scripts.

·         Reviewing test plans and automation scripts

·         Managing automation regression activities in development, integration lineups.

 

 

 

Major Projects Handled in Tech Mahindra Ltd:

 

Feb 2011 – Sep 2011              Residential Gateway Automation

Environment:              Automation using iTest tool, Spirent Automation Test System, TCL, SVN

Customer                                  PACE, San Jose, USA

Brief Profile:              Residential Gateway (RGW) is a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) that has all the required features to support Triple play services & hence, an ideal choice for the IPTV service delivery. the salient features of the RGW include built-in VoIP optimized for DSL (with digital echo canceller), stateful packet inspection (SPI) Firewall, the industry's first multicast IGMP proxy and snooping for video QoS. Built-in QoS support gives service providers a flexible tool for traffic analysis and edge policy enforcement.

 

Size:              9

Roles and Responsibilities:              Technical Architect

·         Responsible for project delivery

·         Automation strategy planning

·         Automation co-ordination between onsite and offshore team

·         Automation lab design

·         Resource Allocation (Engineers and Systems)

·         Project scheduling, estimation and risk management

·         Preparing / analyzing metrics report for status update, quality improvement etc

·         Developed IGMP and QoS test automation scripts

·         Developed Spirent Test Center libraries

 

Protocols:              IGMP, QoS, Performance, Latency, Ethernet, Parental control

 

Nov 2006 – Jan 2011              1850 Testing (Rel 1.x, 2.x, 3.x & 4.x)

Environment:              Validation, Automation, Spirent Automation Test System, VxWorks and     TCL

Customer                                  Alcatel-Lucent, Italy

Brief Profile:              The Alcatel-Lucent 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS) is a new breed of multi service transport platform able to support any mix of traffic from 100 percent circuit to 100 percent packets. Service providers can uniquely address the transition from TDM/circuit to packet transport with a universal switch that enables flexible provisioning of Ethernet/MPLS, SONET/SDH, and WDM/OTN in any proportion

Size:              25

Roles and Responsibilities:              Technical Lead – Data Validation and Automation

·         Data Validation and Automation strategy planning

·         Resource Allocation (Engineers and Systems)

·         Project scheduling, estimation and risk management

·         Preparing / analyzing metrics report for status update, quality improvement etc

·         Co-ordination between onsite and offshore team

·         Developed test automation scripts

·         Developed Spirent Test Center libraries

 

Tested Protocols:              Provider Bridge, Provider Backbone Bridge, TMPLS, Layer 2 QoS, ERP,CFM,EFM OAM,VPLS,RSTP,MSTP, IGMP Snooping and LAG

 

Major Projects Handled in Centillium Pvt Ltd:

 

Nov 2005 – June 2006              Optical Home Gateway Testing

Environment:              Manual Testing, Spirent Automation Test System, VxWorks and     TCL

Customer                                  Corecess Inc, South Korea

Brief Profile:              Optical Home Gateway supports standard compliant of EPON ONU feature set plus support of routing, security, NAT and voice functionality with PSTN backup

Size:              4

Roles and Responsibilities:              Lead of Optical Home Gateway Testing

§         QA strategy planning

§         QA co-ordination

§         Resource Allocation (Engineers and Systems)

§         Test Scheduling

§         Test plan development

§         Regression test execution

§         Reproducing customer problems

§         Automation of regression testing through PERL and TCL scripts

Tested Protocols:              IEEE 802.3ah, RIP, Firewall, DHCP, WLAN, SIP and IGMP     Snooping

 

Jan 2004 – Oct 2005              Ethernet Passive Optical Networking System Testing

Environment:              Manual Testing, Spirent Automation Test System, VxWorks and    ThreadX, TCL

Customer                                 OFN Inc, Japan.

Brief Profile:              Mustang addresses the needs of customers deploying Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) in Ethernet over Passive Optical Networks (EPON). Mustang interfaces with OLT on Central Office (CO) side. Mustang supports all the protocol requirements and standards to ensure error free data delivery at the rate of 1Gbps over EPON network.

Team Size:              4

Roles and Responsibilities:              Lead of Mustang 200 system validation

                                                               Testing

§         QA strategy planning

§         QA co-ordination

§         Resource Allocation (Engineers and Systems)

§         Test Scheduling

§         Writing test plan

§         Carrying out regression tests on Mustang releases

§         Reproducing customer problems

§         Involving in the process of developing script design documents for mustang features

§         Automation of regression testing through TCL/Expect scripts

§         Maintaining Lab setup in Bangalore and Fremont, CA,USA.

§         Real time customer support in Mitsubishi Electric Company, Osaka, Japan

Tested Protocols:              IEEE 802.3ah, 802.1x, 802.3x, 802.1d, 802.1p&q and IGMP Snooping

 

Major Projects Handled in HCL CISCO Offshore Development Center:

 

June 2002 – Dec 2003              Content Service Switches (Layer 4-7 Switches) Regression Testing

Environment:                                          Automation Test System (ATS), TCL/EXPECT and PERL

Brief Profile:              Writing Automation scripts to test Security feature of Content Service Switches.

Team Size:              4

Roles and Responsibilities:              Technical Lead of Content Service Switch Security Feature

                                                               Testing

§         QA strategy planning

§         QA co-ordination

§         Resource Allocation (Engineers and Systems)

§         Test Scheduling

§         Involving in the process of developing script design documents for New  Security Features

§         Automation of regression testing through TCL/Expect scripts

§         Carrying out regression tests on Local Director and Content Service Switches

§         Enhancing testing strategies and optimizing test scripts

§         Mentoring and Training

Tested Protocols:                           Layer 4-7 switching, SSL, Local Director and Cisco IOS Firewall

 

June 2000 – March 2001:               Network Management Integration Module

 

Environment:                                          HPUX 10.2 & 11.0, AIX 4.3.2 & 4.3.3

Brief Profile:                                          To integrate third party NMS (Network Management Systems

like HPOV, NetView) with Cisco View 5.x and Resource Manager          Essentials.

Team Size:                                           3

Roles and Responsibilities:              Development Engineer

§         Porting NMIM Solaris code to AIX and HPUX

§         Fixing bugs

§         Handling customer cases

§         In charge of cdone build mechanism which includes  NMIM module

§         Unit testing

§         Smoke Test

 

June 1998 – June 2000 &

Apr 2001 – June 2002:                            Resource Manager Essentials 2.x and 3.4

 

Environment:                                          SOL, HPUX and AIX.

Brief Profile:              Resource Manager Essentials is a powerful suite of Web-based applications offering network management solutions for Cisco switches, access servers, and routers.  The Resource Manager Essentials browser interface allows easy access to information critical to network uptime and simplifies time-consuming administrative tasks.

Team Size:                                          20

Roles and Responsibilities:               Network Engineer

·         Test co-ordination

·         Leading Test Automation efforts

·         Leading Java-plugin patch testing

·         Feature and Regression Testing of Inventory, Swim,

      Asset Manager, Config, Install and Import modules

·         Functional Specification, PRD and Test plans reviews and preparation

·         Performance Testing

·         Simulated Large networks ( ~5000 devices ) for Performance &  Stress test

      (done at Cisco Systems, San Jose,  USA )

·         Involved in ISO 9002 process

·         White box testing  of  Asset Manager module

·         Y2K Testing

·         Handling HPUX issues

Tested Protocols:                           PIX, Cisco IOS Firewall, Layer 2-3 switching, Routing and SNMP

 

Project Handled in Bay Talkitech:

 

July 1997 – January 1998:                Change Number Announcement System

Environment              Borland C++ 4.5 SDK, FoxPro Database, 8 channel IVRS card

Brief Profile              This system gives the new telephone number for an old telephone number. The Client application is developed in Borland C++ 4.5 SDK. When the subscriber dials to Change Number Announcement Systems through enquiry number, it asks to dial the old telephone number. Then it searches this number in host database and gives the new number if found.

Team Size              5

Roles and Responsibilities:              Software Engineer

·         Involved in  Designing, Coding for IVRS card interface

·         Unit Testing

·         Integration Testing

·         Involved in giving user training for DOT customers

 

·         My team won twice BEST TEAM award for outstanding contributions in ATT LTE Automation and 1850 testing in Tech Mahindra

·         Got Valuable Team Player award for ATT LTE Automation activities.

·         Got 3 SPARC awards from CISCO Managers for contributions towards automation of Content Service Networking security features, CE IDS patch release and testing of install/upgrade for RME3.4 .